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TIL Disney uses a paint colour called "GO AWAY GREEN" to camouflage and hide objects and doors in their theme parks.

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KRl6 TIL in Paris in 1910, engineers had to freeze the Seine (river) along 64 meters to dig the tunnel for the subway going underneath it.
0wmVp TIL about the Oka Crisis, where the mayor of Oka wanted to raze Aboriginal land to expand a golf course. A documentary, called Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance gives a native’s perspective
woZvW TIL that the modern three-point safety belt was perfected by Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin in 1959 – and its patent given for free to the world. The invention has been credited with saving at least a million lives worldwide.
VBJkG TIL there was a girl who locked alone in a room for most of her first thirteen years, who never successfully learned a language. She is now 56 years old.
0wen1 TIL of Dr. Carlos Montezuma a Native American who was stolen by another Tribe and sold to an Italian photographer, who took him to Chicago to be educated. In 1889, Dr. Montezuma, was one of the first Native Americans to receive a degree in medicine. Later he fought for Native American rights.